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P4: Weve read that for more than a thousand years Britain has always had kings or queens except for the ten years between 1649 and 1659. In the past, kings had great power and they really helped to make history. They started wars, made laws, and did things in their own way. But gradually more and more power went to Parliament.
Elizabeth II calls the Windsor family a «Firm». She thinks of it as a business rather than a family. And the main business of the royal family is…well, probably being royal. And they are paid for it. The Queen is one of the richest women in the world and yet she gets about 8 million pounds a year to be queen. But many people agree that she does her job well and she deserves her salary.
P5: When Elizabeth was 13 she met Prince Philip of Greece. He was six years older then her. He came from the Greek royal family, but also had relatives in the Danish, British and Russian royal families. During the war he was in the Navy and that was when Elizabeth first saw him. Certainly at that time she was only a schoolgirl, but later they fell in love and in 1947 they got married.
The next few years were very happy. They had their first children: a son, Charles, born in 1948, and a daughter, Anne, born in 1950.
P6: In 1952 King George VI died. Elizabeth was only 25 and she was Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Like other kings and queens since 1066, she came to Westminster Abbey for the coronation in the royal carriage with its fine horses. But, unlike other kings before her, she wanted the ceremony to be on television. The church and the government didnt welcome the idea. It was an important ceremony and not a public show, they said. But Elizabeth won. The whole country watched how the heavy gold crown was placed on t
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